PSCI 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Glaucon, Thrasymachus, Cephalus
15 Oct 2015
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Socrates engages with others by posing questions instead of giving answers. Early in the text, 2 major themes begin to emerge. Question of justice: central theme of this work, conversation centered on the question of. The notion of the conflict within the soul of an individual (mastery of the passions + difference btw. Individuals mastered by passions and those who can master their passions within themselves) Piraeus: beginning of the republic, this is a dramatic scene, piraeus is the harbor/port outside of athens. The port is where you get sailors, merchants (trade/commerce), diversity. This is where plato sets the dialogue on how to address justice, it is there where socrates will have the conversation about what justice means. Opposition of physical force with ideas, slave gets socrates to bring him back to the house, social strata forming (those who exert physical force and those who have ideas)
